Patch Adams
Patch Adams
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adamsis an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where they dress as clowns in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 May 1945
CountryUnited States of America
dream running thinking
When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.
focus problem solutions
If you focus on the problem, you can’t see the solution. Never focus on the problem.
christian buddhist real
When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.
gratitude bad-day sea
At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.
mean excellence poverty
Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.
disease needs patient
We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease,
spiritual mean action
For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.
pie america giving
The Gesundheit Institute is a pie in the face of greed - by taking the most expensive thing in America, health care, and giving it away for free.
radical commit
The most radical act anyone can commit is to be happy.
men years humanity
Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.
doctors quality purpose
The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.
growing-up fun kids
The reason adults should look as though they are having fun, is to give kids a reason to want to grow up.
skills environment areas
I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.
justice people special
Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.